Fredko Prokop and Frank Jankac

internment camp: It was one of the largest internment camps in the country during the First World War, according to CBC. The War Measures Act, which was in force from 1914 to 1920, allowed the federal government to imprison thousands of Canadians of Ukrainian, German and Slavic descent, considered enemies and a threat to national security. Fredko Prokop died in the camp on June 1, 1915. Records show Prokop, who was of Austrian background, died of spinal meningitis in the Kapuskasing camp, said Frank Jankac, a researcher and public historian. A monument at the site of an internment camp near Kapuskasing. Paranoia and xenophobia' Prior to war, the Canadian government actively recruited immigrants to settle in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.